Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development reports the planting fall rye and winter wheat is now underway in the Central and Eastern regions of the province.
According to Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development’s weekly Crop Report farmers in the Central region have started planting fall rye and winter wheat, some in advance of rains over the holiday weekend, while farmers in the Eastern region are seeding winter wheat as canola stubble becomes available and more acres are expected to be planted as soil moisture conditions allow.
Cereal crop specialist Pam de Rocquigny says, at this point, we don’t have a good estimate of the number of acres farmers plan for this fall. A lot of the times here in Manitoba, often what will dictate the number of winter wheat acres that will go in is whether or not there is availability of stubble, so timing of canola harvest.
Winter wheat often goes into canola stubble so depending on when that canola crop comes off. If it’s earlier in the season, that allows that time for producers to put their winter wheat into that canola stubble. If our canola harvest is delayed, which we may be seeing in the southwest region, there will be less opportunity for producers to seed their winter wheat into that canola crop.
Those types of things come into play in terms of what impacts the final winter wheat acres in terms of what producers have planned to go into the ground, what that’ll end up at the end of the day.
For producers that will be looking for AgriInsurance coverage, the full coverage deadline for winter wheat is September 15 so that’s for full coverage seeding deadline in terms of for winter wheat.
For Fall rye, for full coverage, it’s September 20 and then there’s also deadlines a few days later for reduced coverage. Of course producers are encouraged to contact their AgriInsurance person that they deal with in terms of making sure what those seeding deadlines are.
De Rocquigny says hopefully we’ll see rapid germination and uniform emergence of those winter cereal crops that have gone in and will be going in this week.
